wine-0.9.56-1.fc7 . Success with Visio 5. Problems with cups

[Data Rational Communic...]

Hi,

I am running wine-0.9.56-1.fc7 on a Fedora 7 system. I installed Visio 5
(must be around 10 years old!). The Visio seems stable when running under
wine, the graphics are good and I can save the vsd files under wine.

Two small problems

1. Unable to save complex diagrams to jpg or gif. For example, there is an
Office furniture template which includes walls, chairs and tables. The
simple items such as walls are displayed in the gif or jpeg or png. The more
comples items such as chairs and tables are not visible in the exported
format of the visio diagram.

2. Unable to print image to cups-pdf. I thought I would get round problem 1
by printing the Visio image to a PDF. I installed cups-pdf under Fedora and
this support pdf print from a "native" linux application. However, when I
print from Visio under Wine, and select cups-pdf as the print destination,
the output is routed to the physical printer, rather than a pdf.


Clive
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[vitamin]

Hi,

I am running wine-0.9.56-1.fc7 on a Fedora 7 system. I installed Visio 5
(must be around 10 years old!). The Visio seems stable when running under
wine, the graphics are good and I can save the vsd files under wine.

Two small problems

1. Unable to save complex diagrams to jpg or gif. For example, there is an
Office furniture template which includes walls, chairs and tables. The
simple items such as walls are displayed in the gif or jpeg or png. The more
comples items such as chairs and tables are not visible in the exported
format of the visio diagram.

Anything in the terminal? Some areas in Wine does lack support for these formats. Also it might have been built without support for these image formats.

2. Unable to print image to cups-pdf. I thought I would get round problem 1
by printing the Visio image to a PDF. I installed cups-pdf under Fedora and
this support pdf print from a "native" linux application. However, when I
print from Visio under Wine, and select cups-pdf as the print destination,
the output is routed to the physical printer, rather than a pdf.

This is a known problem. cups-pdf is not a "real printer", and Wine can't work with it as-is. The only way I got anywhere with this is modifying a printer port (see registry bellow) to be something like "|kprinter" (KDE's print manager). This makes Wine pipe it's output through manager where you can choose which printer to use.

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[HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Printers\HPLaserJetIII]
Port="|kprinter"

[qwertymn]

Hi, maybe this howto (from appdb) is useful, works inmost cases for me fine:

Native alternatives for non-windows platforms

1. Install cups-pdf

2. edit /etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf and put something like this:

Out ${HOME}/PDF

instead of

Out ${DESKTOP}

in the file (otherwise i got errors like 'permission denied')

3. When the printer-dialog (in for exampe notepad or other app) opens, choose "Cups-pdf printer" , _DON'T_ choose "print to file" !!!, just hit 'OK' button, and you will find your pdf-file in ~/PDf with some kind of funny name.........